Matching an Outdoor Ride to a Workout

[WombleHunter]

I agree, doing a quick search of “highest developer priority”, I found this post from Dec 2021 where

@SeanHurley

But we continue working very hard on adding the ability for Adaptive Training to fully and seamlessly integrate all the work you do (indoors or out, structured or not) into every aspect of how it adapts your plan. As we often say, we don’t like to give timelines on features, but this continues to be one of our highest development priorities.

Which is very similar to the update in this thread

@IvyAudrain

It IS exciting! Workout Levels V2 is still our developer’s highest priority. While there’s not concrete timeline as we identify and address any issues that arise that could alter that release date

So when you see posts like

@SarahLaverty

To accommodate for athletes’ preferences and differing recovery needs, we plan on making some updates to Plan Builder .

about a feature you would really like to see, I can’t help but think “don’t hold your breath”

@IvyAudrain

That said, strictly adhering to a ship date would result in releasing a sub-par product.

Agreed, but nobody is asking you to do that, as a software developer, I fully get that software is none linear and to be careful about setting expectations (especially in systems like the ones that I work on where peoples lives are at risk) but by causally throwing about the “highest priority” statement, you ARE setting expectations that is coming soon, and by doing it for 11 months+ you are raising disappointment (the girl who cried wolf)

Personally, a better way to do it would be to have a pinned post in this forum that only TrainerRoad staff could post to with updates on the features you are working on, which would save all the “highest priority” posts, so we could have a central place to look to rather than searching for the latest “developers highest priority” post,

Adaptive Training Outdoors

TrainNow uses your recent training load to recommend one of its 3 workout styles (Endurance, Climbing, and Attacking) each day. It’s not using TSS to guide the specific workout suggestions it gives within each category—those are driven purely by your Progression Levels. Right now, Adaptive Training will incorporate any outdoor ride that’s associated with a structured TR workout into its understanding of your training. But we continue working very hard on adding the ability for Adaptive Trainin…